The resource curse
“The curse is not just the environmental risks of mining — it’s what happens when people in need of money see the glitter of wealth in a time of extreme inequality.” — Catherine Delahunty.
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Tag: mining
Digging deeper
“Our more middle-class economic status . . . owes everything to the housing and health policies of the former welfare state in the 1950s, and nothing to gold.” — Catherine Delahunty, whose great-grandfather was a miner in the Thames gold rush.
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Mining and the seven generations test
“Behind the rhetoric about prosperity and clean energy, I hear the voice of a kuia from Hauraki who educated so many of us, including judges, about the vital tests for assessing the value of minerals.” — Catherine Delahunty.
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Our case shows why the fast-track bill must be stopped
If the Fast-track Approvals Bill goes through, “our coast will once again be the target of mining consent applications — this time, with no clear avenue for our voices and rights as mana whenua to be upheld.” — Olivia Haddon, on winning an 80-year battle to stop sand mining at Pākiri.
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